Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James M. O'Neil '49 and Chris T. Mahan, Jr. '49, originators of the petition, claim that many students would thereby save from $2.50 to $3.00 a week. Petitions are being posted in ten halls in the Yard, with slgnees numbering up to 60 percent in one entry as an outcome of the first week of the campaign...
Lesser Poles explained that Russia's understanding with the Polish Provisional Government featured a two-way stretch. Said one, with a laugh as hollow as proud Poland's claim of independence, "When Vishinsky wants to back up, he lets our man go forward...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn...
Lysenko and his followers at the Soviet's All-Union Institute of Selection & Genetics claim to have disestablished tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and barley. Their conservatism vanquished, the plants could be grown in almost any part of the mighty Soviet Union: e.g., a tomato was deeply shaken by a grafted liaison with a nightshade. It became so enterprising that, sown outdoors in May, it ripened its fruits before the early frost of Moscow...
Even the experts would have to agree that unbeaten Notre Dame had a strong claim on the No. 1 basketball rating. Of the nation's 350 other college teams, only two-Navy (7-0), and West Virginia (12-0)-had also avoided taking at least one tumble. Of these, only West Virginia seemed to be in Notre Dame's class. But there was a handful of once-beaten court giants itching to stake a championship claim. The top two: Oklahoma A. & M. (once beaten, by De Paul), Iowa (once beaten, by Indiana...